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Injustice: Gods Among Us #20

It has been exactly one month since the Joker nuked Metropolis. A mysterious radio signal is broadcasting from Metropolis proclaiming “I am alive.” Despite assuming this is an elaborate trap, Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern decide to check it out.

Martian Manhunter reports to Batman about the Justice League finding lex and how he survive.

It's found out in the game that the story we're seeing here is set in an alternate universe from the "regular" DCU, and the spark of the story comes from a few of the regular DCU folks being sucked into this Earth as it was going through a similar threat, but Metropolis is saved.

In this universe, one of the big (and only that I can remember) differences is that Lex Luthor wasn't an enemy, but an ally for Superman.

Also: That last scene reminds me of the scene from the Justice League Cartoon where Batman reveals everyone's identities to one another before they sneak through the Thanagarian occupied city incognito.

or on the other side, Lex, body-swapped into Flash, decides he can at least get a good unmasking out of the ordeal.. only to realize he has no idea who he is looking at, having never met or heard of Wally West.

Also: That last scene reminds me of the scene from the Justice League Cartoon where Batman reveals everyone's identities to one another before they sneak through the Thanagarian occupied city incognito.SERIOUSLY!

It reminded me of an old comic where I think the writer of JLA from our world (Earth-Prime?) came to the comics universe and convinced the JLA to trust him cus he knew their identities. Also Barry vouched for him cus Barry had been to our world and met the writer before or something. Barry also thought it would be funny to pull off everyone's masks at superspeed as the writer identified them (while pointing at them, like in the panels above). For drama I guess.

I like to think that there's at least someone in the government who figured them all out and has been actively covering their IDs in secret, such as following any case into their identity and subtly hiding important evidence, like Marvel sometimes does with Fury, and Smallville did with Martha Kent when she became a senator.

She's outrun Bart-as-Impulse and she hangs with the Flash family, but she's slower than Wally or (presumably) Barry. I don't think she's ever explicitly broken lightspeed; she needed the help of a magic racetrack thingie to even approach it.

Wait they brought Jessie Quick back for the first time since the reboot only to kill her off in two panels. I know this book is an out-of-continuity video game tie-in but given how many former DC characters are in "limbo" (like Jessie Quick) this is low. Very low.

And I'm still not sure what the point of this book is. Characters acting all out of character and gratuitous violence.Might as well just play the video game.

I doubt it counts as a spoiler since the game trailers are very explicit about it, but these are alt-universe characters. There's an entirely other universe that mirrors DCNU, and they will have to deal with this alternate universe.

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